All posts tagged "World War II"

SEOUL (Yonhap) — A total of 126 mistakes about Korea have been found in Japan’s textbooks over the past five years, a lawmaker said Monday, showing another example of Japan’s continued attempts to distort history. “Japan distorted...

By Brian Han Christopher H.K. Lee’s latest documentary “The Last Tear” will be screened in Washington D.C. and Seoul on Aug. 15 marking the 70th anniversary of South Korea’s liberation from Japanese imperialism during World War II....

TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged Friday that Japan inflicted “immeasurable damage and suffering” on innocent people in World War II, but stopped short of offering his own apology and said future generations of Japanese...

SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) — Japan should move first to resolve the ongoing row with South Korea over the Japanese military’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, a former Japanese prime minister said Wednesday....

By Kang Seung-woo Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se urged Japan, Wednesday, to take responsibility for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II and make sincere efforts to resolve the matter. In a keynote speech to...